Jay DeFeo’s The Rose

Leah Levy, Director and Trustee of The Jay DeFeo Trust; David A. Ross, Director of the Whitney from 1991-97; Lisa Phillips, Curator at the Whitney from 1988-99; and Dana Miller, the Curator of the Permanent Collection at the Whitney, discuss Jay DeFeo’s monumental painting The Rose (1958-66), focusing on the Whitney’s efforts to conserve the work.

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